How do u get little picture/logo next to http://www...etc in the URL box thingy? Am creating website...?

Question

Hi, im creating a website, and i've noticed the little logos to the left of http:// where you type the web address in, and I was wondering how to do this? for example, yahoo answers has the green speech bubble, google has the 'G'... I want one on my website! But how? thanks!

Answer 1

Yea, that little graphic is called a favicon.
What you need to do is to dowload a software to create such icons. Its mostly freeware so it should be easy to download.
Just google 'free favicon software' it should bring out a host of them.

The one i use is called adsen favicon so you might want to google that as well.

next when you get your software, you create your logo in say.. photoshop or whatever and then resize it to a 16X16 pixels image and export it as a jpeg. Do not make it .gif as it would not work.

After this is done, you open your software and import that little graphic then you can now save. Save it as favicon

The file will now be favicon.ico.

To be honest I dont know why you have to name it favicon but this is what I do most of the time so am already used to it. You can experiment with other names tho if it would work.

Then in your html code, inbetween the .... section, type



make sure that you type the correct path in the href section tho so it can work.

Most of the time, when I dont use a server technology and put my files in the wwwroot and access them through localhost on my computer, that thing doesnt work until I upload it onto the internet. so if it doesnt work on your computer, dont fret and just upload it unto the internet and bingo, your favicon would be live.

I did something like that on one of my websites. It is www.evanspublishers.com
you should see the favicon.

I also did it in www.alt-i.org

I hope this answers your question.

cheers

Answer 2

Well I think you are asking about that small logo which display before your website address in address bar. Am i rite ?

If so, that small icon or logo is called FAVICON & you get yourself a free one from following site. There will also some instruction present on the site to add that logo in your site.

http://www.graphicsguru.com/favicon.php...

Answer 3

It's called a Favicon, short for favorite Icon.

Google for: create favicon

Answer 4

Firstly you need to create a Favicon icon in .ico format (the same type Windows uses) - go to http://www.favicon.co.uk/ to do this. Then after looking through the source code of this page, I found under the meta tags, so I suppose this is the code you use. But obviously the href link will point to your .ico file instead of the Yahoo Answers one.

Answer 5

Try Favicon

Answer 6

make an icon/bitmap file and name it favicon.ico - put it in the root of your website (ie, www.website.com/favicon.ico). Make the file tiny though - can't remember, but I think it's 16x16 pixels

If your website is hosted elsewhere (ie, homepage.ntlworld.com/mywebsite) you won't be able to have a favicon

Answer 7

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Answer 8

Cute, TD!! I like the way you assembled the poets into a poem :)